AWS Podcast

Simon takes you through another BIG set of updates - what will catch your imagination? Shownotes: AWS re:Invent 2018: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS Public Sector Summit Canberra: https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/ Amazon QuickSight announces Pay-per-Session pricing, Private VPC Connectivity and more! | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/Amazon-QuickSight-announces-Pay-per-Session-pricing-Private-VPC-Connectivity-and-more/ Introducing Amazon EC2 M5d Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-m5d-instances/ Amazon Polly Introduces a New French Female Voice, Léa | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-polly-introduces-a-new-french-female-voice-lea/ Amazon Neptune is now generally available to build fast, reliable graph applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/amazon-neptune-is-now-generally-available/ Amazon Athena releases support for Views | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/athena-support-for-views/ Amazon Redshift Can Now COPY from Parquet and ORC File Formats | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-redshift-can-now-copy-from-parquet-and-orc-file-formats/ Amazon DynamoDB Announces 99.999% Service Level Agreement for Global Tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-dynamodb-announces-a-monthly-service-level-agreement/ Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Regional Expansion | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-dynamodb-backup-and-restore-regional-expansion/ Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Go Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator--dax--sdk-for-go-now-available/ Introducing Optimize CPUs for Amazon RDS for Oracle | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/introducing-optimize-cpus-for-amazon-rds-for-oracle/ Announcing General Availability of Performance Insights | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/announcing-general-availability-of-performance-insights/ Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Read Replicas now support Multi-AZ Deployments | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/rds-postgres-supports-readreplicas-multiaz/ AWS Database Migration Service Can Start Replication Anywhere in a Transaction Log | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-dms-can-start-replication-anywhere-in-a-transaction-log/ AWS Storage Gateway Adds SMB Support to Store and Access Objects in Amazon S3 Buckets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-storage-gateway-adds-smb-support-to-store-objects-in-amazon-s3/ Amazon EBS Extends Elastic Volumes to Support EBS Magnetic (Standard) Volume Type | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-ebs-extends-elastic-volumes-to-support-ebs-magnetic--standard--volume-type/ AWS CloudFormation StackSets Supports Multiple Execution Roles and Selective Update Operation on Stack Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/aws-cloudformation-stacksets-supports-multiple-execution-roles-a/ Introducing CloudFormation Support for AWS PrivateLink Resources | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/cloudformation-support-for-aws-privatelink-resources/ Application Load Balancer Simplifies User Authentication for Your Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/application-load-balancer-simplifies-user-authentication-for-your-applications/ Amazon MQ Now Supports AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-mq-now-supports-aws-cloudformation/ Application Load Balancer Adds New Security Policies Including Policy for Forward Secrecy | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/application-load-balancer-adds-new-security-policies-including-policy-for-forward-secrecy/ Amazon Cognito Now Supports Custom Domains for a Unified Login Experience | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-cognito-now-supports-custom-domains-for-a-unified-login-experience/ Amazon Cognito Protection for Unusual Sign-in Activity and Compromised Credentials Is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-cognito-advanced-security-features/ AWS Shield Advanced Announces New Onboarding Wizard | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/shield-advanced-onboarding-sign-up-wizard-drt-permission/ AWS WAF Announces Two New Features | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/waf-new-features-queryargs-cidr/ Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery is now available for Dedicated Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/amazon-ec2-auto-recovery-is-now-available-for-dedicated-instances/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports PyTorch and TensorFlow 1.8 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-pytorch-and-tensorflow-1-8/ Amazon SageMaker now Provides Chainer integration, Support for AWS CloudFormation, and Availability in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/amazon-sagemaker-chainer-nrt-cloud-formation-support/ Amazon SageMaker Inference Calls are now supported on AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-sagemaker-inference-calls-are-supported-on-aws-privatelink/ Now Clone a Model Training Job on the Amazon SageMaker Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/now-clone-a-model-training-job-on-the-amazon-sagemaker-console/ Automatic Model Tuning is now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/automatic-model-tuning-is-now-generally-available/ Announcing AWS DeepLens support for TensorFlow and Caffe, expanded MXNet layer support, integration with Kinesis Video Streams, new sample project, and availability to buy on Amazon.com | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-deeplens-tensorflow-caffe-mxnet-kinesis-video-streams-buy-now/ Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-elastic-container-service-for-kubernetes-eks-now-ga/ Amazon Sumerian Regional Expansions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/Amazon-Sumerian-Regional-Expansions/ Amazon Sumerian Regional and Feature Expansion | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-sumerian-regional-and-feature-expansion/ Amazon API Gateway Supports Private APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/api-gateway-supports-private-apis/ Amazon CloudWatch Adds VPC Endpoint Support to AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-vpc-endpoint-support-to-aws-privatelink/ Announcing Amazon Linux 2 with Long Term Support (LTS) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/announcing-amazon-linux-2-with-long-term-support/ AWS Introduces Amazon Linux WorkSpaces | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-introduces-amazon-linux-workspaces/ Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math Supports Bulk Transformations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/Amazon-CloudWatch-Metric-Math-Supports-Bulk-Transformations/ AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Includes All Management Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-cloud-trail-event-history-now-includes-all-management-events/ Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces support for Redis 4.0 with caching improvements and better memory management for high-performance in-memory data processing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-elastiCache-for-redis-announces-support-for-redis-40/ AWS Config Introduces New Lower Pricing for AWS Config Rules | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws-config-introduces-new-lower-pricing-for-aws-config-rules/ AWS Marketplace Launches New Website Workflow | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/aws_marketplace_launches_new_website_workflow/